Astronomy Picture of the Day · March 2002
APOD, March 2002
31 entries from March 2002: 31 images and 0 videos. 7 carry a copyright notice from the credited creator.
March 1, 2002 Jupiter's Great X-Ray Spot
Credit: X-ray Image: R.Gladstone ( SwRI ), et al., Optical Image: Cassini Imaging Team , NASA
March 2, 2002 M27: Not A Comet
Credit: FORS Team , 8.2-meter VLT , ESO
March 3, 2002 The Regolith of Asteroid Eros
Credit: NEAR Project , JHU APL , NASA
March 4, 2002 The Shuttle Crawler Transporter
Credit: KSC , NASA
March 5, 2002 Earth in True Color
Credit: Reto Stockli ( IACETH ), MODIS , GSFC , NASA
March 6, 2002 Simulated Galaxy Cluster View
Simulation Credit: Rychard Bouwens ( UCO/Lick Obs. ), ACS Team , NASA
March 7, 2002 · Copyrighted Comet Ikeya-Zhang Brightens
Credit & Copyright: Gerald Rhemann
March 8, 2002 Columbia Dawn
Credit A. Barrett, KSC , NASA
March 9, 2002 A Quasar Portrait Gallery
Credit J. Bahcall ( IAS, Princeton ), M. Disney ( Univ. Wales ), NASA
March 10, 2002 · Copyrighted A Southern Sky View
Credit & Copyright: Gordon Garradd
March 11, 2002 The 100-Meter Green Bank Radio Telescope
Credit: NRAO , NSF
March 12, 2002 Atete Corona on Venus
Credit: Magellan Spacecraft Team , USGS , NASA
March 13, 2002 LL Orionis: When Cosmic Winds Collide
Credit: Hubble Heritage Team ( AURA / STScI ), C. R. O’Dell ( Vanderbilt ), NASA
March 14, 2002 SM3B: Mission to Hubble
Credit: STS109 Crew , NASA
March 15, 2002 Neutron Mars
Credit: Mars Odyssey , GRS Team , ASU/LPL , NASA
March 16, 2002 The Colorful Moon
Credit: Galileo Project , JPL , NASA
March 17, 2002 · Copyrighted NGC 2244: A Star Cluster in the Rosette Nebula
Credit & Copyright: J. C. Cuillandre & G. Fahlman ( CFHT Staff ), CFHT
March 18, 2002 · Copyrighted Comet Ikeya-Zhang's Busy Tail
Credit & Copyright: Gilbert Jones
March 19, 2002 Breaking Distant Light
Credit: VIMOS , VLT , ESO
March 20, 2002 · Copyrighted Aurora Over Antarctica
Credit & Copyright: Robert Schwarz ( U. Wisconsin )
March 21, 2002 S is for Sun
Credit: SOHO – EIT Consortium , ESA , NASA
March 22, 2002 Odyssey Over Mars
Credit: THEMIS , Mars Odyssey Team, JPL , NASA
March 23, 2002 The Water Vapor Channel
Credit: F. Hasler, D. Chesters, et al. , GOES Project , NASA/GSFC
March 24, 2002 The Cat's Eye Nebula
Credit: J.P. Harrington and K.J. Borkowski ( U. Maryland ), HST , NASA
March 25, 2002 · Copyrighted An Unusual Globule in IC 1396
Credit & Copyright: Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT), Hawaiian Starlight , CFHT
March 26, 2002 · Copyrighted Comet Ikeya-Zhang Over Tenerife
Credit & Copyright: Francisco A. Rodriguez Ramirez ( AstroEduca )
March 27, 2002 Looking Into an Io Volcano
Credit: Galileo Project , JPL , NASA
March 28, 2002 Centaurus Galaxy Cluster in X-Rays
Credit: J. Sanders, A. Fabian, ( IoA Cambridge ), NASA
March 29, 2002 NGC 4631: The Whale Galaxy
Credit: Diane Zeiders, Adam Block ( KPNO Visitor Program ), NOAO , AURA , NSF
March 30, 2002 Venus Unveiled
Credit: Magellan Project , JPL , NASA
March 31, 2002 The Mysterious Rings of Supernova 1987A
Credit: ( ESA / STScI ), HST , NASAThumbnails are loaded from their original addresses. Images remain the property of the credited creators.
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